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Confirmation bias
This is the mental shortcut that results in us seeking out, preferring, and remembering things in a way that suits what we already believe. The term has been particularly popular over the past several years, in reference to how people choose their news sources.
If you or your team don't love remote work, this means you're less likely to spot remote work successes—and more likely to spot shortfalls that you believe arise from your new working environment. We need to get away from this tendency to use remote work as a scapegoat.
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Similarity bias
Similarity bias draws us to people who are like us, causing us to miss out on new, diverse relationships at work. It can even lead us to hire, promote, or offer more career development to people we can see ourselves in. Not good.
We need to go out of our way to feel co...
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Status quo bias
When we know what to expect, we know how to respond—and our brains like knowing how to respond. That's part of why shifting to remote work can be difficult: we've been working in person for years, decades in some cases, and it's hard for us to think of work in any other setting.
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Anchoring bias
One trick our minds use to sift through everything thrown at us is to latch onto the first piece of information we get about a particular topic, decision, pattern.
When the American workforce went remote in March 2020, it was sudden—and not necessarily smooth. Even tho...
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Proximity/distance bias
Our brains want to feel in control, and physical proximity is one way we can have that control. So even though we have the tools to bridge any virtual distance, it's still a natural tendency to give preferential treatment to those in arm's reach, or at least a few desks down.
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Complexity Bias
We are inclined to believe that complex solutions and explanations are better than simple ones. The perception of complexity often leads to avoidance.
What you can do about it:
- Instead of seeking to understand a concept fully,
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And when they seem coherent, we accept them without activating our critical mind (see "Main cause of biased judgment" in this collection).
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6. The Low-Information Diet
- This is another important aspect of the decluttering process.
- Ferriss recommends making the task lists that keep you on track and create a
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